BootCamp drivers for Windows XP

Mighty mouse and Black MacBook

Mighty mouse and Black MacBook

In case you’re stuck after installing XP on your MacBook or you don’t have the Leopard CD’s near you (like me – left them at home) then you may be stuked after you installed XP on your machine. You don’t have any Mac drivers for your systems and the new BootCamp Assistant in Leopard doesn’t provide an option for you to create the XP drivers disk.

Here is the best way to get the Mac drivers for Windows XP to work :  Apple’s Official XP Drivers Link

The download contains complete copies of Boot Camp Windows XP Drivers (version 2.1).  If you have Boot Camp drivers already installed, it will update them.  If you do not have any Boot Camp drivers installed, it will install version 2.1 drivers onto your already installed Windows OS.

HowTo improve Apple’s Mighty mouse tracking speed

Here is a piece of software that you may need in case you’re using Apple’s Mighty Mouse on a MacBook – I’m talking here about the bluetooth (wireless called by Apple) version. You may have observed if you switch from a Logitech mouse that tracking speed is slow and acceleration is almost useless. If you’re not a geek that will edit the /Library/Preferences files then I recommend you this software : SteerMouse available at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/steermouse.html

Otherwise if you’re looking for a zero cost solution the easiest way is to open the Terminal and type:

open ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Once you’ve got the file open, changing the setting for com.apple.trackpad.scaling to something higher will make the trackpad more responsive. For example, a setting of 5 is noticeably faster than the fastest setting available in System Preferences, and a setting of 20 would be uncontrollably fast. You can also change com.apple.mouse.scaling to alter the speed of mouse tracking. 

apple's mighty mouse wireless version

apple's mighty mouse wireless version

The simplest way I knew of to commit these settings once I had altered and saved .GlobalPreferences.plist was to log out and log back in.